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A character named in Homer's Iliad. The English introduction is not yet available.

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Mentions in the Iliad

A. T. Murray, Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press, 1924 · Homer, Iliad with an English Translation · CC BY-SA 3.0 US

“and so came to Lemnos, the city of godlike Thoas. There she met Sleep, the brother of Death; and she clasped him by the hand, and spake and addressed him: Sleep, lord of all gods and of all men, if ever thou didst hearken to word of mine, so do thou even now obey,”
Il. 14.230–234
“and anoint him with ambrosia, and clothe him about with immortal raiment, and give him to swift conveyers to bear with them, even to the twin brethren, Sleep and Death, who shall set him speedily in the rich land of wide Lycia. There shall his brethren and his kinsfolk give him burial”
Il. 16.670–674
“and anointed him with ambrosia, and clothed him about with immortal raiment, and gave him to swift conveyers to bear with them, even to the twin brethren, Sleep and Death, who set him speedily in the rich land of wide Lycia. But Patroclus with a call to his horses and to Automedon,”
Il. 16.680–684

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Brother through mother · Sources
Brother through mother · Sources

Квалификация братства/сестринства: Отдельный внешний источник: Общая мать подтверждена; сведения об отцах неполны. Различие отцов не установлено. Общие родители: Нюкта.

Квалификация братства/сестринства: Отдельный внешний источник: Общая мать подтверждена; сведения об отцах неполны. Различие отцов не установлено. Общие родители: Нюкта.

and so came to Lemnos, the city of godlike Thoas. There she met Sleep, the brother of Death; and she clasped him by the hand, and spake and addressed him: Sleep, lord of all gods and of all men, if ever thou didst hearken to word of mine, so do thou even now obey,
Il. 14.231–232
and anoint him with ambrosia, and clothe him about with immortal raiment, and give him to swift conveyers to bear with them, even to the twin brethren, Sleep and Death, who shall set him speedily in the rich land of wide Lycia. There shall his brethren and his kinsfolk give him burial
Il. 16.672

Il. 14.231–232 · Il. 16.672

Entrusted to carry the body to Lycia · Sources
Entrusted to carry the body to Lycia · Sources

После приказа Зевса (16.666–675) Аполлон очищает, омывает и передаёт тело братьям-близнецам. Подпись сохраняет засвидетельствованное в русском тексте поручение, не смешивая его с убийством Сарпедона.

with mound and pillar; for this is the due of tne dead. So spake he, nor was Apollo disobedient to his father's bidding, but went down from the hills of Ida into the dread din of battle. Forthwith then he lifted up goodly Sarpedon forth from out the range of darts, and when he had borne him far away, bathed him in the streams of the river,and anointed him with ambrosia, and clothed him about with immortal raiment, and gave him to swift conveyers to bear with them, even to the twin brethren, Sleep and Death, who set him speedily in the rich land of wide Lycia. But Patroclus with a call to his horses and to Automedon,
Il. 16.676–683

Il. 16.676–683

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